Is it as barmy as destroying ones almost waist-length, top condition, socially acceptable, naturally beautiful crowning glory?

Hhhmmmm??

Well… I did.

It takes courage and a free spirit to toss aside the pressures of our culture, and embrace who we in our hearts.

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2 year old dreads – Tribal Ali by Casey Orr photograher

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A teeny bit of history and folk-lore first…

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When young children, especially girls, wake from an evening’s slumber with tangles and snarls in their hair, mothers with a tradition of fairy folklore might whisper to their daughters that they had caught fairy locks or elf-locks.

Fairies, they say, tangled and knotted the hairs of the sleeping children as they played in and out of their hair at night.